"tim (not at home)" wrote in message
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"Jason Fisher" wrote in message
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Watford Junction will not even have that according to the draft
timetable. Just one Birmingham train an hour and the stopping train to
Crewe via Stoke. If I still lived in the area, I would be protesting
about that.

That's already better than the previous suggestion, which IIRC was going
to be reduced to about 4 main line trains a day

I've come to this thread late, catching up after a week away.
Co-incidentally, I was on a canal boat and we were discussing the scheme as
we passed under the Met line to Watford and then (a few yards further on)
the other bridge on the line from Watford West. Further delay on this scheme
is absurd. It just needs sorting. But why is it so expensive? The Cotswold
(partial) re-doubling mentioned in another thread seems to be the same cost
for several miles as a few hundred yards of new construction. As to services
on the new line, one could run Amersham to WJ and cut short some of the
Amershams at Rickmansworth. As others have said, it's misleading to think of
the scheme as "just another way of getting from WJ to London". Aylesbury to
St Albans, anyone?

Regards

Jonathan